We have kind of forgotten this. Anyone old enough to remember the early browsers - Mosaic and Netscape - will remember how every platform was supported, regard

We have kind of forgotten this. Anyone old enough to remember the early browsers - Mosaic and Netscape - will remember how every platform was supported, regardless of CPU (including MIPS, SPARC, Alpha etc.) and regardless of OS (IRIX, AIX, System whatever, VMS, Windows, etc.). Furthermore you didn't have to wait two years for the non-Windows version to be updated. Only when Microsoft made NT Intel only did you get this arrangement where software was locked to a given architecture/OS. Thank goodness Linux came along.